The integrity of the World Cup was called into question last night amid claims
and counter-claims about alleged match-fixing involving the Cameroon team.

Fecafoot, the Cameroonian football federation, said yesterday that it had
begun an investigation into alleged claims by Wilson Raj Perumal, a
convicted match-fixer, that there had been “seven rotten apples” in their
World Cup squad. Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, claimed that
Perumal had correctly predicted that Cameroon would be beaten 4-0 by Croatia
and that one of their players would be sent off during the first half of the
match on June 18.